Understanding Your Offer
It can take several weeks to process a financial aid application, so we encourage you to complete and submit yours early. After your application materials have been processed and reviewed, you will receive an email from the Office of Financial Aid letting you know that your financial aid notice is available on PAWS.
Your Financial Report Explained
You will receive a financial aid offer email to alert you to the packaging of aid on your PAWS account. You must then use your FSU username and password to log into PAWS. Navigate to "view financial aid" and choose the aid year you want to view. Your account will display any scholarships, grants, or loan offers that you have been determined to be eligible for. You will also receive additional revised award offer notifications via email if there are future updates or changes to your aid package.
Accept or Decline Your Offer
You have received your financial aid offer. Now what should you do? We automatically accept all free aid awarded to you and it will be applied to your university charges. However, if you want to accept or decline loan offers you will need to do that inside your PAWS account (View Financial Aid>Select Year>Accept/Decline Awards). Your offer notification will give specific steps, but always remember that a loan entrance counseling and MPN are required when borrowing federal loans for the first time. These items can be completed directly on the FAFSA site.
Condition of Awards
When you accept our offer of financial aid offered by Frostburg State, you agree to fulfill the following responsibilities, including the terms and conditions set by the federal regulations for financial aid.
Renewal Criteria for Scholarships
At the end of each academic year, the FSU Financial Aid Office reviews the advertised cumulative GPA and required yearly credits earned for each student's corresponding renewable Admissions scholarship.
In addition to the academic year-end review, the FSU Financial Aid Office is also responsible for verifying the per term requirements of meeting SAP, at least 12 credit enrollment (beginning of fall & spring) and a cumulative GPA (end of fall & spring) at or above the predetermined criteria communicated by the Admissions Office.
(Actively awarded scholarship renewal GPA requirements - Associate 3.0, Purpose 3.0, Transfer 2.8, and Reach 2.5)(Reach recipients must complete 30 credits by the end of each academic year Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring)
(Purpose, Transfer, and Associate recipients must complete 24 credits by the end of each academic year Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring)
Students may appeal the cancellation of their renewable FSU Admissions scholarship one time only. The student must be able to document extenuating circumstances and present a complete academic plan. A student in their final semester prior to graduation that does not meet the 12-credit enrollment minimum is also eligible to appeal.
Appeals should be received in the FSU Financial Aid Office by the end of the published free/add drop period of the semester of loss. Students who successfully appeal must then proceed to meet the criteria set for their specific award upon the end of the approved semester to keep the award.
The above does not apply to FSU Foundation awards which are reviewed up awarding.